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French Protestant missionaries (3 C, 7 P) P. French Plymouth Brethren (3 P) S. French Seventh-day Adventists (2 P) Pages in category "French Protestants"
Louis XIV claimed that the French Huguenot population was reduced from about 900,000 or 800,000 adherents to just 1,000 or 1,500. He exaggerated the decline, but the dragonnades were devastating for the French Protestant community. The exodus of Huguenots from France created a brain drain, as many of them had occupied important places in society.
According to a 2020 survey, Protestants made up 3% of the French population. [2] A renewed interest in Protestantism has been brought by numerous Evangelical Protestants, while the membership of Calvinist and Lutheran churches has stagnated; many of the latter two confessions have merged into the United Protestant Church of France.
Léa Seydoux (1985–), French actress, patron of the charity Empire des enfants, [244] atheist member of the Protestant Schlumberger and Seydoux families. [ 245 ] [ 246 ] [ 247 ] Delphine Seyrig (1932–1990), actress and film-maker, member of an intellectual Protestant family from Alsace.
The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre (French: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion.
French Protestant ministers and clergy (2 C, 10 P) T. French Protestant theologians (2 C, 18 P) This page was last edited on 11 July 2015, at 08:41 (UTC). Text is ...
John Calvin (/ ˈ k æ l v ɪ n /; [1] Middle French: Jehan Cauvin; French: Jean Calvin [ʒɑ̃ kalvɛ̃]; 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.
Camisards were Huguenots (French Protestants) of the rugged and isolated Cévennes region and the neighbouring Vaunage in southern France.In the early 1700s, they raised a resistance against the persecutions which followed Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, making Protestantism illegal.